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Dr Wayne Wesley (centre), CXC registrar, in conversation with Carol Simpson (left), officer-in-charge of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Division for Latin America and the Caribbean; Monica Halil Lövblad (second right), head of WIP
December 9, 2025

CXC to publishers: Make texts accessible for visually impaired learners

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) will require publishers to produce accessible texts, including braille and large print, registrar Dr Wayne Wesley said Monday. Speaking at a World Intellectual…
The frame of Alson Hughes’s house in Darliston, Westmoreland, after Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025 by Albert Ferguson

Hurricane Melissa wrecks Christmas for W’land families

WESTERN BUREAU For thousands of Jamaicans, the warmth of Christmas will be more than a memory this year. Hurricane Melissa, now recorded as the most violent storm ever to strike the island, has left…
US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference after a meeting with Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader at the National Palace in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Wednesday.
December 9, 2025

Dom Rep grants US access to restricted areas for fight against drugs

SAN JUAN (AP): Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader announced Wednesday that he has authorised the US government to operate inside restricted areas in the Caribbean country to help in its fight…
A section of the field hospital established at Black River High School by Samaritan’s Purse. 
December 9, 2025 by Paul H. Williams

‘We always come with Jesus first’

IN LESS than 48 hours after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, Samaritan’s Purse airlifted the first members of a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and tons of…
The St Andrews Anglican Church in Albert Town, Trelawny. Normally a place of refuge, churches across Jamaica were also victims of Hurricane Melissa, which passed through Jamaica on October 25, 2025, leaving estimated damage of US$8.8 billion and counting.
December 9, 2025

Sean Major-Campbell | Churches should consolidate not rebuild post-Melissa

A CATASTROPHIC disaster has presented the Church with a wonderful opportunity to choose between operating from a place of understandably anxious, emotional responses and that place of inspired…
Residents of Giddy Hall, St Elizabeth receive care packages from Give Back Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa.
December 9, 2025

Yaakov Raskin | Jamaica will rise

WE WILL all never forget where we stood when Hurricane Melissa hit us on Tuesday, October 28. This storm will be remembered for generations,, not only for the damage it caused, but for how it changed…
Director General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management, Commander Alvin Gayle. - File photo.
December 9, 2025 by Kimone Francis

NONE SPENT

The Government has confirmed that US$1.68 million and J$635 million have been donated to Hurricane Melissa relief accounts controlled by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management…
The vehicle which Bijorn Ellis drove, showing bullet holes.
December 9, 2025 by Mickalia Kington

W’land man killed at police checkpoint

A birthday viist to a friend ended in terror for 30-year-old Bijorn ‘Cody’ Ellis of Bath district, Burnt Savannah, who was fatally shot by police along the Llandilo main road late Sunday. A close…
Finance Minister Fayval Williams.
December 9, 2025 by Edmond Campbell

Finance minister to speak on economy Tuesday

Finance Minister Fayval Williams will next Tuesday table the third Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure and update the nation on the various sources of financing to help Jamaica recover from the…